iambic

• ïambic (rare)
• iambical
• iambick (obsolete)
• jambic

From Middle French ïambique, from Late Latin iambicus, from Ancient Greek ἰαμβικός (iambikós), from ἴαμβος (íambos) + -ικός (-ikós).

• IPA^(key): /aɪˌæmbɪk/ (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)
• Rhymes: -æmbɪk

iambic (comparative more iambic, superlative most iambic)

1. (prosody) Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed-stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance. [from 16th c.]
   • 1908, Frank Gilbert Bruner, The Hearing of Primitive Peoples, page 17:

     [J]ust before the rhythm becomes iambic, there will be a point reached at which the rhythm can hardly be said to be more iambic than it is trochaic.

• iambic pentameter
• iambic tetrameter
• iambically

iambic (plural iambics)

1. (prosody) An iamb; a line or group of lines of iambs.

• trochaic

• cimbia

Borrowed from French iambique, from Latin iambicus.

iambic m or n (feminine singular iambică, masculine plural iambici, feminine and neuter plural iambice)

1. iambic